All public infrastructure benefits the public but the role of our governance is to correctly prioritize. $100 billion spent on nuclear power plants is $100 billion being withheld from other critical social services.
Typically you store a hash of user passwords instead, then when logging in you hash the user password client-side and compare the hashes. This acts like a one-way function that protects the password while letting the user authenticate themselves.
My coworker was given this advice when they first started their mechanical engineering and design job. They originally thought it was some kind of hazing and after an hour of reading couldn’t put it down.
I noticed that the dots on the surface of the sphere are evenly spaced out close to the equator, but because there is a consistent number of dots in each ring, they are very close together when you reach the poles.
One way to get dots evenly spread out over the surface of a sphere is to use a phyllotaxis spiral pattern.